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Re: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing

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Post by radisb »

apancik wrote: post #25
msellout wrote: post #9

Why is "defer" different from "snooze"? Both indicate picking a time to deal with the email.

Defer forces you to book a time in your calendar instead of "snoozing" the message just so that it reappears later. Actually, snoozing was one of the most exciting features I saw in Mailbox, but after using it heavily I realised I get plenty of messages on Monday morning back to inbox and I just snooze them again. It turned to be a complete disappointment for me

How about making "defer" be snooze with a hard limit of 2 or 3 times max? This I think would work because you could snooze if really you cant/dont want to deal with a message immediately but eventually you would have to.

Or maybe have up to X "snooze slots" so that you cant snooze everything and you snooze things that truly dont deserve to be deleted. And you would have to empty a slot by dealing with a snoozed message to be able to snooze a new one.

Re: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing

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Post by swsieber »

fragsworth wrote: post #46
jordanlev wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume he means the "swipe left or right" aspect of Tinder. That is, responding to an email is just a matter of taking one action.

That's really odd, because Tinder is not known for the "swipe left or right" aspects of their app, more for their reputation as a sex hook-up app. My confused impression when I read the title was "A sex hook-up app that uses e-mail?"

Bwa ha ha ha ha. I guess the perception is different depending on where you're from. I immediately thought of the swipe left/right aspect - though I'm in a community that is more chaste than most though. For example, I know a couple who met through tinder without any sex before marriage. That's probably why I thought different - I just really haven't known enough people who use tinder like you described. Or used tinder at for that matter.

edit: minor spelling corrections.

Re: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing

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Post by ignoramous »

Xeoncross wrote: post #18

This assumes an inbox is a type of "project" that needs to be "completed". It's structured on the concept of removing messages from my screen until there is nothing left for me to "do". My inbox is often more of a conversation that I fade in and out of. Sometimes it resembles a facebook feed. Granted, I'm not a type A personality, but not all email is has to be "done" anymore than all reading books need to be "done".…

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Empirically, the way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things. Want to dominate microcomputer software? Start by writing a Basic interpreter for a machine with a few thousand users. Want to make the universal web site? Start by building a site for Harvard undergrads to stalk one another.

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I think the way to use these big ideas is not to try to identify a precise point in the future and then ask yourself how to get from here to there, like the popular image of a visionary. You'll be better off if you operate like Columbus and just head in a general westerly direction. Don't try to construct the future like a building, because your current blueprint is almost certainly mistaken. Start with something you know works, and when you expand, expand westward.

The popular image of the visionary is someone with a clear view of the future, but empirically it may be better to have a blurry one.

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Re: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing

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Post by apancik »

heywire wrote: post #64

Just a heads up, my workplace McAfee Web Gateway filters this website under the category "Phishing" with a "Medium Risk" reputation. Perhaps the previous domain owner wasn't the most reputable. Not sure what you have to do to get off of McAfee's list, but wanted to mention it as it might keep people from being able to visit your site.

Thanks for the note! I will look into it

Re: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing

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Post by vinceguidry »

I treat emails as open loops. I currently have four in my inbox representing three open loops. I consider "inbox zero" to be a counter-productive strategy focused on the wrong things.

I still do GTD-style triage, but I'm more willing to let stuff sit in queues. Inevitably I get sick of looking at it and do something about it, moving it into a backlog or working out a way to just do it right now.

But my life isn't one where more productivity would really net me all that many life improvements. Generally, if I can visualize a pathway to a real life improvement, motivation to get it done is not an issue.

My life generally consists of trying to solve really hard, complicated situations using mostly intuition. Staring at something sitting in a queue is often all I need to get that intuition going. "Why do I want this? How does this connect to other parts of my life?"

Re: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing

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Post by tomc1985 »

semerda wrote: post #59

Is email really broken or are people looking for things to change? Reason I ask is because I see this "let's fix email" so often, peeps build something new then it either gets acquired & killed or goes no where. What if email isn't broken. Instead email as we think we see it is merely a feed with or without action and its up to us to manage it. PlainEmail appears like an attempt of changing our habits of reading a fe…

There's the cultural aspect too...

People tend to over-rely on email, and on communication in general...

If people stopped work at a sane hour and limited messaging to times when it is actually necessary...

Re: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing

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Post by tomc1985 »

sithadmin wrote: post #7
Mahn wrote: post #5

So, this looks interesting, but what does the "Tinder for email" analogy have to do with it?

People need to stop treating the 'X for Y' analogy construct like it's the Uber for analogies.

'X for Y' analogies are older than technology... good luck...

Re: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing

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Post by tomc1985 »

eric001 wrote: post #20
overcast wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think my next project, I'm going to say "Made with little sleep, frustration, and no social life".

Off topic, but who started this "Made with <3" thing?

I'm beginning to categorically distrust these "Made with Love" people. Obsessive, made-with-love types seem to be these hard-charging, work-at-all-hours nerds that need to get out more
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